Descendants of Brown Progenitor-460036

Sixth Generation

Code-US He is senior partner of Brown, Shipley and Co. Cassis, City Bankers, pp. 272-273. Brothers & Company and the Brown family of private bankers.

Alexander married Blandy Henrietta Agnes Terrell-235534 daughter of Blandy Progenitor-235535 and BNotknown Miss-235536. Henrietta was born in 1848.

Per Linda Minor. Henrietta Blandy married the grandson of both William Brown and his brother James:
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/detaild.cfm?DID=21429 GB 0247 MS Kelvin S68 Call Number:
MS Kelvin S68 Content: Autograph letter signed, from J.P.G. Smith to William Thomson. Coulport. 21 Nov. 1875. Lists the stocks and property to be settled on Henrietta Blandy (Lady Kelvin's sister) on her marriage to Alexander Hargreaves Brown. Mentions having seen the wedding presents

Sir Alexander Hargreaves Brown 1844-

Autograph letter signed, from J.P.G. Smith to William Thomson. Coulport. 21 Nov. 1875. Lists the stocks and property to be settled on Henrietta Blandy (Lady Kelvin's sister) on her marriage to Alexander ... James Bruce Jardine was married to Agnes Sarah Hargreaves Brown--the daughter of Sir Alexander Hargreaves Brown. Sir Alex was the son of William Brown’s son, Alexander, who was married to James Brown’s daughter Sarah Benedict Brown.

INTRODUCTION

‘After all, we have come out for this war only’ declared Captain James Bruce Jardine, one of the first of a small group of British army officers recently attached to the British Legation in Tokyo to study Japanese.1 This statement was all the more remarkable for having been made on the 2nd of January 1904, over a month before the Russo-Japanese War formally began. His confidant, Dr Erwin von Baelz, was suitably impressed with this apparent perspicacity, and noted in his diary that ‘obviously, then, four months ago, England already regarded the war as inevitable’.2

The preparedness of Jardine and Bannerman in Tokyo was echoed by another member of this pioneering group of Language Officers, Captain Berkeley Vincent, who, only two days before, had travelled to Pusan to spend three weeks on some unspecified ‘special service’ in the Korean peninsula, and who, after the Russo-Japanese conflict finally broke out on the 10th of
February 1904, would be in Korea again to observe unofficially the landing of Japanese troops at Chemulpo.3 Vincent would be the first of many such British military observers in the field, and from this early, undeclared phase of the Russo-Japanese War until the formal post-war demobilisation of Japanese troops in Manchuria almost two years later, some twenty-nine officers of the British army, including three lieutenant-generals, would accompany the Japanese land forces.

Other nations would follow the British example but none would match it. The numerical advantage grudgingly conceded to Britain would be denied to other nations as the Japanese military authorities made strenuous efforts to limit the places available for foreign military and naval observers, and among those who did secure an attachment to the Japanese forces, none had the same level of actual combat experience which their British counterparts had acquired during three decades of colonial wars. In particular, most of the British military observers had experience at varying levels of the Boer War, a startlingly modern conflict which was currently in the course of detailed study and evaluation by the general staffs of the major armies.

The Russo-Japanese War occurred at a time when it was an institutionalised belief among the armed forces of the industrialised world that the observation of other wars offered insights into modern warfare from which they could learn as much as – and sometimes even more than – from their own experience. The American Civil War of 1861–5 and the Franco-Prussian War of
1870–1 were the first wars to attract a significant number of officers from non-belligerent countries, who observed the action from both sides, and the study of both conflicts became an important part of the education of army officers into the early twentieth century. It was not until the Russo-Japanese War over three decades later that the military observer came into his own again. The Boer War of 1899–1902 had attracted its share of attention and a sprinkling of foreign attachés, but it could still be dismissed as a colonial war – albeit an exceptional colonial war – of dubious relevance to the increasingly urgent question of how the next major European war would be fought. The Russo-Japanese War was different: it involved the armed forces of the largest power in Europe, and, although relatively little was known, or indeed expected, of Japan, her army and navy were at least perceived to have the advantages of modern armaments and organisation, making this a more balanced contest than previous wars fought
outside Europe. No other conflict had been observed with such intensity and the Russo-Japanese War marked the apogee of the professional military observer: by its conclusion, over eighty officers from the armed forces of at least sixteen different nations had observed the conflict from both sides.

http://www.kittybrewster.com/d.htm Violet Cicely Kathleen Wollaston. Born 4 July 1882. Died 1969. Married 6 June 1907 Douglas Clifton-Brown, Viscount Ruffside (born 16 August 1879, died 5 May 1958), Speaker of the House of Commons.

http://213.52.137.147/convenors.html - Lady Hylton-Foster, Audrey, created in 1965. Convenor the Crossbench Peers 1974-95.
Born: 19th May 1908. Daughter of late 1st Viscount Ruffside, PC, DL, Speaker of the House of Commons 1943-51 and the late Viscountess Ruffside. Educated: St George's Ascot; Ivy House, Wimbledon. Married: 22nd December 1931, Rt Hon . Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, QC, MP (died 1965), Speaker of the House of Commons 1959-65. House of Lords: Former Member of all sub-Committees of the House of Lords by virtue of her position as Convenor of the Crossbench Peers 1974-95; Member,
Cross Bench Parliamentary Group 1965- 2002.

Records of the Chilean merchants Balfour, Williamson & Company Ltd, founded in 1851, including legal and financial papers, correspondence and photographs, c1840-1975. The collection includes some papers relating to associated companies, including Lobitos Oilfields, the Pacific Loan and Investment Company Ltd, and the Compañía Estañifera de Ocuri. The papers of
the Santa Rosa <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/latcolls.htm#sr#sr> Milling Company, a former Balfour Williamson subsidiary taken over by the Bank <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/latcolls.htm#bolsa#bolsa> of London and South America, have a separate entry in this list. Above Per Linda Minor.

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Viscount Ruffside, Speaker HOC Clifton-Brown Douglas-235714 was born in 1879. He died in 1958.

<http://jackostree.topcities.com/933.htm> Violet Cicely Kathleen Wollaston. Born 4 July 1882. Died 1969. Married 6 June 1907 Douglas Clifton-Brown, Viscount Ruffside (born 16 August 1879, died 5 May 1958), Speaker of the
House of Commons. Per Linda Minor. Colonel first last Viscount Ruffside

Douglas married Wollaston Violet Cicely Kathleen-451871 daughter of Wollaston Frederick Eustace Arbuthnot-235188 and Hargreaves Ann-235165. Violet was born in 1882. She died in 1969.

Ann married Wollaston Frederick Eustace Arbuthnot-235188 son of Major Of Shenton Hall Leics Wollaston Frederick-235191 and Arbuthnot Josette or Janette Eliza Jane-235741. Frederick was born in 1853. He died in 1930.

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Frederick and Ann had the following children:

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Wollaston Violet Cicely Kathleen-451871 was born in 1882. She died in 1969.

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Violet married Viscount Ruffside, Speaker HOC Clifton-Brown Douglas-235714 son of Colonel Brown James Clifton-237379 and Rowe Amelia-237380. Douglas was born in 1879. He died in 1958.

<http://jackostree.topcities.com/933.htm> Violet Cicely Kathleen Wollaston. Born 4 July 1882. Died 1969. Married 6 June 1907 Douglas Clifton-Brown, Viscount Ruffside (born 16 August 1879, died 5 May 1958), Speaker of the
House of Commons. Per Linda Minor. Colonel first last Viscount Ruffside

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Wollaston Frederick Hargreaves Arbutnott-460083 was born in 1879. He died in 1918.

Grace married Sir Bart3 of Cambo Fife Erskine Ffolliott Williams-235194 son of Sir Bart2 of Cambo Fife Erskine Thomas-235202 and Ffolliot Zaida Maria-235203. Ffolliott was born in 1850. He died in 1912.

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Ffolliott and Grace had the following children:

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Erskine Zaida Grace-235195 was born in 1914. She died in 1943.

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Zaida married Scrymgeour-Wedderburn Frederick Lewis-235208 son of Earl9 Dundee Scrymgeour-Wedderburn Henry-235238 and Of Dublin Braddell Juliana-235210. Frederick was born in 1874.

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Sir Bart4, DSO Erskine Thomas Wilfred H. J.-191890 was born in 1880.

Baronet of Cambo in thepeerage.com. In http he seems to be Lt-Col Sir Thomas Wilfrid Hargreaves John Erskine, Bart4 born 1880

Thomas married Anstruther Magdalen Jane-191893 daughter of Anstruther Robert Edward-191894 and de Burgh Marguerite-191895. Magdalen was born in 1889.

5. Hon. Barrington Reynolds Pellew, Major, Rifle Brigade, and A.D.C. to Gen. Sir C.Van Straubenzee, K.C.B., (Knight Commander of the Bath), b 18 Apr. 1833; served with distinction in the Kaffir War, at the siege of Sebastopol, the storming of Canton, and at the assault and capture of Lucknow. He d. 6 Dec. 1858.(aged 25) of dysentery and buried at Dilkusha, Lucknow.

Anne Urquhart Stillman was the daughter of James Brown Potter and Mary Cora Urquhart, an actress, who were divorced not long after their marriage. James Brown Potter’s parents were Mary Louisa Brown and Howard Potter. Mary was the daughter of James Brown and Louisa Benedict—thus making her the younger sister of Sarah Benedict Brown, whose husband was Sir Alexander
Brown, son of Alexander Brown’s eldest son, who ran the Liverpool operations of Brown, Shipley as partner of his three American brothers. James Brown, who ran the New York operations, was thus the great grandfather of the woman discussed in the Time, Inc. article below.